Product Design Lead

Role Overview

Join Aaru’s Product Design team as a Product Design Lead. You will help users make decisions faster by designing and evolving user experiences across every surface of Aaru.

Responsibilities

• Identify patterns across user needs to 10x the impact of Aaru’s simulation software.
• Ship quickly while advancing the platform design system.
• Force-multiply engineering with high-quality prototypes using agentic workflows.
• Experiment and improve AI-native design workflows.
• Help hire designers and raise the team’s bar.

Requirements

• You have led product design or released your own products.
• You thrive in ambiguous, novel technical domains.
• You value feedback over conformity and can defend your decisions.
• You use AI tools heavily while maintaining strong design taste.
• You ship fast and know when to slow down for polish.
• You communicate clearly in writing and in person.
• You can push back and change your mind when needed.

Nice-to-Haves

• Built a design system for a platform or developer product.
• Shipped 0→1 product surfaces (not only iterations).
• Contributed to open source or production codebases.

Location & Work Mode

• Based in New York City.
• In-person, 5 days per week in the office.
• Candidates must be in the NYC metro area or open to relocation.

Compensation

• $205K – $320K base salary, plus equity (visa sponsorship and relocation support available).